Peter Gocke

CDO | Charite University Hospital

Bruno Holthof

CEO | Oxford University Hospital

Ernst Kuipers

CEO | Erasmus MC, Erasmus University Medical Center Rotterdam

Danny Ruta

Clinical Artificial Intelligence Lead | Guy’s & St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust

Danny is the AI Clinical Lead at the Guy’s Cancer Centre, which is partnering with the newly established AI Evaluation Unit at the King’s Technology Evaluation Centre (KiTEC), King’s College London, on the clinical evaluation of AI technology in cancer care. Danny has formerly held posts as Director of Public health for the London Borough of Lewisham and the City of Newcastle, and as Senior Lecturer in Epidemiology and Health Services Research at Newcastle University and Dundee University. Danny has developed national clinical guidelines for the NHS in Scotland, conducted large randomised trials, and developed Patient Reported Outcome measures recommended by the US FDA, used with patients across the NHS in England and throughout the world.

Marte Lauvsnes

Manager, Advisory and Planning Department | Sykehusbygg/Norwegian Hospital Construction Agency

Marte Lauvsnes is manager for the department for advisory and early phase planning. Educated as intensive care nurse and worked with hospital planning all over Norway and also abroad in Helsebygg, SINTEF, Medivi and Sykehusbygg for the last 24 years. Marte chair the European Health Property Network and is in the program committee and jury for the European Health Design Conference in London each year.

Peter Lanbeck

Manager, Program Office | New SUS

Peter Lanbeck, MD. PhD, is a specialist in infectious diseases and former Head of Department of Infectious Diseases at Skane University Hospital Sus. Since 2016 he is manager at Skane University Hospital for Program office new Sus. The program office is responsible administrative body at the hospital for  development of new hospital facilities. Currently a new building is under construction in Malmö with 108 000 sqm for care an 28 000 sqm for logistics and lab.

Per Karlsson

Chief Physician | Sahlgrenska University Hospital

Per Karlsson holds a position as full Professor of Oncology at Sahlgrenska Academy, combined with a position as Senior Consultant in Oncology and Chief Physician at Sahlgrenska University Hospital. As Chief Physician he is a medical adviser in the management group of Sahlgrenska University Hospital and responsible for the quality program and for introducing direct communications between patients representatives and the management group in a newly constructed form called “Patient forum”

Petri Virolainen

Hospital Director | Turku University Hospital

Petri Virolainen Ph.D, M.D. is a specialist in general surgery and orthopedics and traumatology. He has served as hospital director of Turku University Hospital since 2014. He has publications on reconstructive surgery and quality registers. He works in several expert groups considering the use of value based medicine in hospital management.

Jyrki Jalkanen

Operational Services, Service Director | Central Finland Health Care District

Present position: Director of Operative Services, Hospital Nova, Central Finland Hospital District, Jyväskylä, Finland

Education: MD, PhD, Docent in Obstetrics and Gynecology

Juha Kinnunen

Juha Kinnunen is a part-time professor of health administration at the University of Eastern Finland and the CEO of the Central Finland Hospital District. Kinnunen received his doctorate in health care from the University of Kuopio in 1990. After his dissertation, he has worked not only at the University of Kuopio, but also at the University of Oulu and as a visiting researcher in the United States (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management).

Minna Nordahl Friehling

Head of department | New North Zealand Hospital – Transformation

Minna is responsible for the transformation project related to one of the new and most significant hospitals that is being built in in Denmark – New North Zealand Hospital in Hillerød. New North Zealand Hospital is characterized by its unique architecture and high visions for the future hospital. It calls for new ways of working, innovation and new technology. Minna Nordahl Friehling has been part of the hospital project since 2014 and been deeply involved in innovation projects and processes, planning of equipment for the new hospital and organizational transformation.

Per Bo Nørgaard
Andersen

Plan Manager for  New Aalborg University Hospital Denmark 

20 years of experience with leadership, management, organizational development, process reengineering and innovation of healthcare, public organizations and cross sector collaboration.

Jane Rasmussen

Head of Innovation | Aalborg University Hospital

18 years of experience with health innovation and the translation of health research into novel health solutions to benefit hospitals, patients, society, industry and future research. With a strong focus on enabling need and value driven innovation through national and international collaborations. Hence, experience with both public-private partnerships as well as interdisciplinary and cross-sectional collaborations. In the recent 5 years focusing more on organizational strategy and development within health research and innovation.

Markus Rumpsfeld

E-health, collaboration and innovation center, Center manager | North Norway University Hospital 

Rumpsfeld is the head of the University of North Norway’s (UNN’s) newly established center for E-health, Integrative care and Innovation. The center has a clear focus on promoting and developing services that support the active patient, further developing UNN into an outward-looking hospital, making the patient experience seamless and where digitization supports under these goals.

At UNN, he and his team have developed services that systematically elicits patient needs, values and preferences translated into health goals, and encourage patient involvement

Rumpsfeld is a nephrologist and was head of the division for Internal Medicine from 2008-2020 at UNN before he took over his current position.

Marko Rauhala

Managing Director, Nordic Health & Public Services | Accenture

Marko leads Accenture Nordic’s Health and Public Service practice which partners with leading government and healthcare (private and public) organizations to innovate and deliver digital solutions to provide better citizen experience, increase efficiency and deliver better outcomes for citizens and patients. Marko is passionate about how Health and Public Services can be transformed by digital technologies and how they can improve the quality of life for citizens and patients and at the same time make services more affordable and accessible. He emphasizes the role of analytics, artificial intelligence and virtual reality.

Teija Koskinen

Managing Director | Medikumppani

Teija is a transformational leader who is inspired by the people, their wellbeing and personal growth, a leader who also inspires the people to receive their goals.

With an experience of almost two decades on leadership within various industries such as private banking, IT, homecare and now healthcare staffing, Teija is convinced that staff wellbeing provides the firmest foundation for strong and sustainable business growth. This ambassador of emotional intelligence in leadership and healthcare strives for healthier and more balanced work life adding value at every encounter successfully.

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Suhail Mirza

Chairman & Advisor

Suhail Mirza is the author of the LaingBuisson Healthcare Workforce & Recruitment UK Market Report 2021 which draws inspiration from his interviews with over 100 CEO’s and HR leaders in the NHS, Adult social care, Voluntary and Independent Hospital sectors. He has been involved in the UK recruitment and healthcare sectors for over 20 years. He is a well-known and respected figure with senior leaders in the staffing recruitment sector for his industry insight and experience. Suhail is chairman and advisor to group companies with nGAGE Specialist Recruitment and Empresaria Group Plc and was city editor at Recruitment International for over 12

Rachel Dunscombe

CEO | NHS Digital Academy

Professor Rachel Dunscombe is CEO of the NHS Digital Academy, Principal at Tektology and strategic advisor to the NCA Salford NHS Group. She provides advisory services to the Secretary of State for Health in the UK, is the health care representative on the UK government AI council and is associate digital editor for the BMJ. Through her academic work Rachel has received a visiting professorship at Imperial College, London.